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J. L. WAGNER an J. SEATH. CAR DOOR.

No. 442,406. Patented nec. 9, '1890.

WITNESSES:

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE'.

JOHN L. lYAGNER AND JAMES SEATH, OF TERRE HAU-TE; SAID SEA'IFII ASSIGNOR TO CHARLES S. LEVIS, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.

CAR-DOOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 442,406, dated December 9,1890.

Application filed March 1l, 1890. Serial No. 343,510. (No model.)

To all whom, t may concern:

Be it known that we, JOHN L. IYAGNER and JAMES SEATH, citizens of the United States, residing at Terre Haute, in the county of Vigo and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Car- Doors, of which the following is a specification.

Our present invention relates to that class of doors which are adapted to be shut into the door-openings substantially flush with the outer surface of the car, and thus enable said doors to be so tightly closed as to exclude snow, rain, cinders, &c.; and it consists in mounting such doors upon their tracks by means of a three-part device consisting of a bracket on the door, a shoe on the track, and a link connecting them, as will be hereinafter more particularly described and claimed.

Referring' to the accompanying drawings, which are made a part hereof, and on which similar letters of reference indicate similar parts, Figure l is a side elevation of a portion of a car, including the tracks for said door, dre.; Fig. 2, a horizontal sectional View, looking downwardly from the dotted line 2 2 in Fig. 1; Fig. 3, a transverse sectional View on the dott-ed line 2 2 in Fig. l, on an enlarged scale; Fig. 4, a perspective view of the parts shown in Fig. 2, and Fig. 5 a View similar to Fig. 3 of an alternative construction.

In said drawings the portions marked A represent the side of the car, B the ear-door, and C a link connecting a bracket on the door and a shoe on the track.

rlhe car A is or may be any ordinary car and needs no special description. It is provided with a track A and the guide-rail A2, as usual. The track is shown as a bent track; but a straight track may be obviously employed by using two link-brackets, instead of one link-bracket and a stiff bracket, as shownv in the drawings. The door l is an ordinary door for the purpose, and is formed to iit closely into the door-opening, so as to be (lush with the outside of the car when closed. It is mounted on the track A by means of the bracket B and the link C and connected parts. It also has ahandle B2. This handle in practice is commonly of a construction by which the door may be forced into and out of the door-opening; but in this case we have shown it as a plain handle, as the handle is no part of our present invention. The link C is hinged by a horizontal pintle c to a bracket B3 near one corner of the door. This pintle is shown as formed integrally with the other portions of the bracket, but may of course be a separate structure, if desired. The other end of the link rests in a socket or mortise in the top of a shoe C', which rests upon the track, as shown most plainly in Figs. 3 and 4. It might, if desired, be connected to said shoe by a horizontal pintle, as shown in Fig. 5, similarly to the manner in which the upper end is connected to the bracket B3, or otherwise, as preferred.

Our present invention is operated as follows: IVhen it is desired to open the door, the rear side thereof is pulled out of the dooropening, bringing the link C into substantially a vertical position, and which brings the door outside of its jamb. The door is then slid along the track in front of the side of the car, leaving the dooropening exposed, as usual. Then it is desired to close it, it is slid back along the track,and in the construction shown, because of the curved character of the track-rail A', the front edge of the door reaches a position iiush with the side of the carat the same time it reaches the limit of its movement. The rear side of the door is then forced in, which is permitted by the hinging of the link C, as shown.

Having thus fully described our said invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. The combination of a car provided with a door-opening, a door adapted to fit into said opening substantially flush with the side of the ear, a supporting track-rail secured tothe side of the car below said door-opening, a shoe mounted on said track-rail, a bracket secured to said door above said track-rail, and

a link C, extending from said bracket to said 9 IOC In Witness whereof We have hereunto seiJ our hands and seals, 'at Terre Hau te, Indiana, to Ihis 25th day of February, A. D. 1890.

JOHN L. VAGNER. [L JAMES SEATH. [L XVituesses:

B. V. MARSHALL, FRANK SMALLWOOD.

2. The combination of a ear having@ dooropeuing, a door adapted to` be sli-ut' int-0 said opening substantially Hush with the side 0f the car, a track-mil below said door-opening, a bracket oil said door, a shoe on said track, and a link secured to said bracket by a h0rizontal pintle andY extending downto said shoe, I substantially as shown and described. 1 

